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had a great run on my rd400 today, parked it up and a big crowd all got round, r1 boys and suchlikes, all telling me how cool it was 8) it turned every head there, think the noise had something to do with it :twisted: i'm well proud of my old school stroker 8) anyone else have a nice sunday blast :?:
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i remeber a topic a while back about bleeding brakes and how much hassel it was to get all the air out etc. well ive been told a bloody easy way of doing it and it works a treat trust me. all u gotta do is use a couple of elastic bands to compltly pull ur leaver back, then u gotta open ur resivor up and top it up, wait 6 hours, and do it again (if it needs it) and ur done, bascally cus ur brake is fully on something or other is open all the time and the air just flows up to the top, which is y after 6 hours if u have loads of air it will look like loads of fuild has gone, but it wont have, just the air will have gone. brill trick which can be done over night with mi…
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My wife has been saying a lot lately, that I am obsessed with my bike (well anything to do with bikes really). Every opportunity, I am out on it. As soon as I get home I am washing it. And not just a quick flick with a sponge....its the full on clean. I even find myself taking it out of the shed, just so I can look at the darn thing out of the kitchen window as I wash the dishes! I suppose she doesn't know what it feels like to ride a bike, the front end rising as you open the throttle, the sweeping left and right hand bends, the sheer delight as you filter through all the traffic! Look....I am at it again....I am thinking of going out! 8) Is it just me? …
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Cant believe what i have just done!!! :cry: :cry: I was outside cleaning my bike, and someone phoned me up so i was just chatting away and not really thinking and sprayed alloy wheel cleaner over my rims! I completely forgot you cant put the stuff on polished alloy !! :oops: :oops: So now i have white stains all over my wheels :evil: Have spent about an hour so far polishing with autosol and its coming off, but what a stupid thing to have done :shock:
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What dealers in your part of the world would you recommend to other Bikers? Let's see the names and locations so we know who's worth dealing with....and you can name the crap ones too! 8)
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Beezkneez sent this to me over the weekend......appearantly taken from the BSB race :?: It happened on the Warm-Up lap.....rather fitting :shock: I had to cut our conversation short & didn't get to ask him why Haga is in this picture, if it was a BSB race? Hot Nevertheless :shock:
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:?: ive just bought a p reg DTR and the person i bought it off has fully opened the power valve and at low revs its a bit jerkey does anyone know what this could be cheers luke
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Anyone near gloucestershire??? Need a riding partner????? possibly a weekend away camping look forward to replys
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HEY WASSUP EVER 1 i`m bak now . i hav now got 2 dts and im on top of my game or at least i was!!!Like yesterday i was down at the beach and i saw this total wiked jump/drop it was about 25ft on to the shore where tere was loadsa stones .My m8 was there watchin me so i sed ``Oh well thats nuthing only 20ft i meen onto a cuple of stones lets go``Well i wanted to show him my skills of so i went up to the top 5th gear from the grass flat and ...................................BOOFFi hit the drop fine but my landing messed up reeli bad,my bike was fine(ish) but i now hav a slipped disk and a broken leg cool huh i meen i`m only 15 next munth!!!! oh ye!!!!!!!! :roll: :oops: …
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literally!! Knee slider missed for some reason, and hit my knee....ouch! (nothing to do with my positioning of course)! A nice mark on my leathers now.
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